The answer to your question is simple, guys that are so selective based on skin color are restricted by their own limited view of themselves.... When I was single(long time ago) I was international in my approach. I was interested in woman of all colors, the whole spectrum of the rainbow; black, white, brown, yellow, beige, red bone, blue-black, pale, high yella, earth-tone brown, cherry and so in and so forth.
However it always bothered me when "Light skin-ded" sisters would not give me the time of day because I was too light!

My father's black, mom's a jew, affectionately known as an AfroJooBu.